Paper Info
Title
Evaluating the effect of a course Web site on student performance
Abstract
THE AUTHOR CREATED A NUMBER OF WEB SITES to enhance traditional classroom instruction in computer science courses. These Web sites included lecture notes, assignments, downloadable programs, links to sites related to the course subject matter, and a program allowing students to see their grades on all assignments and tests and thus determine exactly where they stood in the course at any time. This study reports on two types of data analyzed to gain insight into students’ use of the site: responses to an author-created survey and students’ final grades. Students demonstrated strong positive reactions to the course Web site on the survey and showed statistically significant final grade improvement after the Web site was introduced. While these results should be interpreted conservatively due to the large number of uncontrolled variables that affect student performance, they are nonetheless encouraging enough to warrant continued effort to develop and evaluate course Web sites.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/BF03032714
J. Computing in Higher Education
Keywords
DocType
Volume
course Web site, evaluation, analysis, student performance, course development
Journal
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1042-1726
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.77
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesse M. Heines14114.06